Brazil

Brazil Govt’s Huge Leak: Health Data of 243M

Brazil’s Ministry of Health is under fire again for another massive leak of personal information ...
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election

U.S. Election Security (and Insecurities)

It has been a month since the U.S. 2020 General Election has passed. The election, according to then-Director of CISA Christopher Krebs in mid-November, was the most secure in history with no ...
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social media

California Federal Court Weighs In (Again) on Social Media Scraping

Social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn have collected personal information on hundreds of millions of subscribers. They have also promised those subscribers that their data will only be shared or ...
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A Look at the Computer Security Act of 1987

U.S. Federal Cybersecurity Today Computer security regulations have come a long way from their early beginnings.  Even before the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), there was the Computer Security Act of ...
CIA

Second Swiss Firm Said to Be CIA Encryption Puppet

First Crypto AG, and now Omnisec AG: Sources say second Swiss company was also in the pocket of the CIA ...
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On That Dusseldorf Hospital Ransomware Attack and the Resultant Death

Wired has a detailed story about the ransomware attack on a Dusseldorf hospital, the one that resulted in an ambulance being redirected to a more distant hospital and the patient dying. The ...
IoT

Congress Passes IoT Security Act, but is it Toothless?

The House and the Senate have both passed a bipartisan bill to shore up the security of “internet of things” devices ...
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20 years of Securing eCommerce shopping against fraud and still innovating

Technology has dramatically changed the ways we shop online over the past 20 years, and RSA has been innovating to secure it from fraud along the way ...

20 years of Securing eCommerce shopping against fraud and still innovating

Technology has dramatically changed the ways we shop online over the past 20 years, and RSA has been innovating to secure it from fraud along the way ...

The US Military Buys Commercial Location Data

Vice has a long article about how the US military buys commercial location data worldwide. The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming ...